Monday, April 24, 2017

Well, hey everybody!! This week
passed by quickly, which always happens. But we did so many things this week.
We did three different exchanges, and let me tell you that doing that can drain you
pretty good! We have done five now in the past two weeks. It has been fun.

So I gotta tell you guys about the
Vargus family. They are amazing. Last week my companion received them as a
reference from a family of members that we have been working with, and Sunday
on the 16th we went to teach them for the first time.

And they are just pure awesomeness.
The next time my companion went to visit them with another missionary, and we
had left the Plan of Salvation pamphlet for them to read as homework.
Afterwards we felt like we should have left the Restoration instead. When
my companion got there, they said "We didn’t read the pamphlet because God
told us told us not to do it." My companion said "Yes, that is
because He wanted us to share this message, The Restoration, instead." And
they all felt the spirit confirming that it was true. They listened to the
message and understood it all. They said that it filled them up. Like there was
a hole that was being filled. And they accepted a baptismal date.

The next time I went to visit with
another Elder, and we talked about the importance of reading the Book of
Mormon, praying, and attending church. They just said that it was all amazing
that we taught and they just wanted to do all three. And they attended church! They
loved it, and they also told us that they were married in 2001. Which is really
just amazing.

They should be getting baptized the
27th of May for sure. It was pretty awesome.

That’s all I have time for, but we
got lots of good things to do now. And it feels good.

Love,

Elder Kendall

Yeah, we played paintball... Sort of...
It wasn't actually paint, it was just rubber balls. Pain. Hahahahaha!

It was pretty intense, couldn't see a thing, and it was pretty close quarters.
But still a good time...

Monday, April 17, 2017

This week we had a lot of really
good things happen, and I saw some really big miracles and the hand of the Lord
in our area. Since it was Semana Santa (Holy Week) we shared with every person
the initiative of the church about the Prince of Peace. I love that video, and
the whole idea of peace. So many people in Colombia need that peace, there are
a lot of hard things that people have to deal with here.

We also did lots of exchanges this
week, and it was pretty fun. We were able to find 17 new people to teach this
week! There is a family of members, the Rodriguez family, that we have been
working with for a while now trying to find and teach some of their friends or neighbors
but it never happened. Until this week! I don't know exactly what changed this
week from those in the past, but the Lord truly blessed and helped us finally
teach these people. We found 11 references from the Rodriguez family this week,
and there are a lot of families. It was a really wonderful thing, and now we
have a whole lot of work to do. I hope that we will continue to be able to find
new people to teach as well.

The Lord truly works in mysterious
ways. But I am so very grateful that He helped us out with these people. I know
that God lives, because I have seen His wonderful hand change people’s lives.
And I'm learning how it is possible that He can change mine.

Monday, April 10, 2017

Hey everyone! This transfer is just
going by wicked fast like everyone has since I started the mission. There are
only three weeks left until my companion finishes his mission. We have plans to do
six exchanges in these next two weeks (if you don't know, that is a lot), and the
time is going to FLY. This week is Semana Santa (holy week), and so there will be
lots of partying and lots of vacationing. It should be fun.

Our zone did some great stuff this
week, and were able to baptize three people, which is what we were able to baptize
in the past two months combined. And, this week there are also four more people who
should be baptized this week! So we are getting things going here in the zone,
and I hope that we can keep going with this excitement for the work, we have
needed it.

We in our area are still working on new people, our only hope for baptism
before Elder Amato leaves told us on Sunday that they don’t want to get married
anymore for the problems they have been having. So we are working on that as
well. We did get to meet with the Bermudes family, and it was super good. Hopefully
we can visit them again this week.

That’s pretty much all I got time
for, this week will be good and I’m excited to keep going!

Love,

Elder Kendall

I found one of my favorite kids ever! Santiago! He is from Casablanca, seriously super cool guy

Me with a sweet puppy

Us at conference :)

We went to Monserrate!! It was super fun, the second time I've gone on the mission

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The back part of Monserrate

Super Poopy (means something entirely different in Colombia than what you are thinking... hahaha!) Chinese buffet place we went to afterwards!!

Monday, April 3, 2017

Hey ya’ll! How's it going? These
weeks just keep passing by as fast as Buzz Lightyear when he says
"Infinity and Beyond!" which I can imagine has to be pretty
fast.

We had another leadership meeting
this week, and it was pretty fun because Elder Palma stayed with us the night
before we went to the meeting, he is a zone leader in Florencia. It was
awesome. We also had our zone conference this week, and it went pretty well. We
were able to practice and whip our zone a little bit into shape. We have been
getting better little by little.

And of course Conference was just amazing. I loved all of it. We had fun with
us four missionaries from the states watching it in English. I also got to see
a ton of people from CasaBlanca!! I saw Brother Baquero, who used to be our
ward mission leader, and also the Viasus family, who the two sons used to
accompany us all the time and are like my best buds. So darny darn cool. I
loved it. Amazing talk by one of the 70's, telling every investigator to please
get baptized... UM YES!!! And of course our dear prophet, Pure power.

Later that night after conference, we finally found a new person to teach!! It
was wonderful, his name is Jaime. He has lots of stuff to work on, but that is
what we are here for! So, we are already getting better. Just gotta keep going
and keep finding.